Quick connect scanning tunneling microscope head with nested piezoelectric coarse walkers
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| author | Coe, Angela M. Li, Guohong Andrei, Eva Y. |
| author_facet | Coe, Angela M. Li, Guohong Andrei, Eva Y. |
| contents | To meet changing research demands, new scanning tunneling microscope (STM) features must constantly evolve. We describe the design, development, and performance of a modular plugin STM which is compact and stable. The STM head is equipped with a quick-connect socket that is matched to a universal connector plug, enabling it to be transferred between systems. This head can be introduced into a vacuum system via a load-lock and transferred to various sites equipped with the connector plug, permitting multi site STM operation. Its design allows reliable operation in a variety of experimental conditions, including a broad temperature range, ultrahigh vacuum, high magnetic fields, and closed-cycle pulse-tube cooling. The compact size of the STM is achieved by a novel nested piezoelectric coarse walker design which allows for large orthogonal travel in the X, Y, and Z directions, ideal for a studying both bulk and thin film samples ranging in size from mm to micrometers. Its stability and noise tolerance is demonstrated by achieving atomic resolution in ambient conditions on a laboratory desktop with no vibrational or acoustic isolation. |
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| spellingShingle | Quick connect scanning tunneling microscope head with nested piezoelectric coarse walkers Coe, Angela M. Li, Guohong Andrei, Eva Y. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics To meet changing research demands, new scanning tunneling microscope (STM) features must constantly evolve. We describe the design, development, and performance of a modular plugin STM which is compact and stable. The STM head is equipped with a quick-connect socket that is matched to a universal connector plug, enabling it to be transferred between systems. This head can be introduced into a vacuum system via a load-lock and transferred to various sites equipped with the connector plug, permitting multi site STM operation. Its design allows reliable operation in a variety of experimental conditions, including a broad temperature range, ultrahigh vacuum, high magnetic fields, and closed-cycle pulse-tube cooling. The compact size of the STM is achieved by a novel nested piezoelectric coarse walker design which allows for large orthogonal travel in the X, Y, and Z directions, ideal for a studying both bulk and thin film samples ranging in size from mm to micrometers. Its stability and noise tolerance is demonstrated by achieving atomic resolution in ambient conditions on a laboratory desktop with no vibrational or acoustic isolation. |
| title | Quick connect scanning tunneling microscope head with nested piezoelectric coarse walkers |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01530 |